Sunday, August 24, 2008

Cottage Vignettes

A favorite vignette with a small collection of religious items ~ an old chalkware Madonna, old silver Prague figure and a Holy Water bottle. Little crowns and little old jewels that I treasure. One of my favorite things to do is to layer old items on shelves. Here are some

more of my "cottage faces" on an old white metal shelf. Have a lovely week! I hope that life is serving you up spoon fulls of joy!

(((Becky))))I just spent the most WONDERFUL time catching up with your posts and loving all that you shared - especially sweet Jean's token of kindness and well EVERYTHING that you've received and done as of late. The new bedding is so pretty and calming - and of course your cottage vignettes are always endearing. I'm missed you and I am so glad that I have had my visit and my Becky-fix. Love ya!!

Becky, Isn't it amazing how much fun you can have by simply changing our little vignettes. You can do something as simple as adding a little piece of lace or doiley, or add a piece of bling( as Karla from Karlas cottage likes to say) and it truly does give us pleasure. Its great playing house.Have a great evening.Jean in Virginia

Hello! I just wanted to tell you that the statue is not The Madonna but a statue of St. Therese of Lisieux, known as the little flower. She was a carmelite nun who lived a very devoted life to Christ. She died at age 24 in 1897 after a long bought with Tuberculosis, I think it was. You can learn more about her life here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thérèse_of_Lisieux

Statues of her are very common because she is a very popular saint. The statue often gets mistaken for The Virgin Mary. She is always depicted with Roses because of what she promised to do when she was in Heaven.